Expert Member of the Accreditation Panel of the Adaptation Fund Board

Short Term Consultancy (STC)
Expert Member of the Accreditation Panel of the Adaptation Fund Board

The consultant is expected to perform the duties of an Expert Panel Member of the Accreditation Panel, thereby providing strong expertise and intellectual leadership in the technical fiduciary review of applications for accreditation as implementing entities.

The position entails close interaction with applicant entities in order to transparently and objectively assess the quality and scope of the information and documents provided vis-à-vis the fiduciary standards of the Adaptation Fund. Field visits to verify and collect information on-site may be required on a case-by-case basis.

The expert shall also be responsible to ensure that all information received from and provided to applicant entities in the conduct of accreditation review remains confidential and is properly recorded in the Adaptation Fund Board secretariat’s files and systems.

The incumbent should demonstrate consistent impeccable professional trajectory at the international level and a solid professional reputation with the highest ethical standards supported by a clean personal and professional track record. Contact details of at least three referees familiar with the applicant’s work are requested.

Specific IT skills and expertise:

• Ability to easily familiarize with online workflow environments.
• Capacity to analyze spreadsheets, text documents (in MS Word, PDF or other formats) and eventually some basic data bases.
• General awareness of most commonly used software for accounting, procurement, project management, and for other core institutional functions.

Interested professionals may wish to familiarize themselves with the institutional background of the Adaptation Fund.

For detailed Terms of Reference of the position, please refer to:http://www.adaptation-fund.org/career-opportunities

Availability: as soon as possible once appointed

Interested candidates should submit their CV and a statement of interest to Daouda Ndiaye (dndiaye@thegef.org) and Aya Mimura (amimura@thegef.org) by September 6, 2012.